We recently forwarded a message about the ALT half-day workshop on
ASSESSMENT TOOLS AND INTEROPERABILITY in Sheffield on 4 April - see
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0202&L=cti-maths&F=&S=&P=736

There will also be a full day workshop on this topic in Hull on 19 March - see
below.

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This is to announce a forthcoming workshop on Computer Aided Assessment to be
held at Hull University on March 19th, which will be free of charge to staff in
UKHE. Details of the workshop, and a registration form, are online at
http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/events/caa_wkshop.html

Workshop: Assessment Tools and Interoperability
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Tuesday 19th March, 2002
Brynmor Jones Library, Seminar Room 1
University of Hull

Content
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As e-learning proliferates, the use of CAA (Computer-assisted assessment)
increasingly relies on third-party, question-and-test items which are useful
only if they can be re-used, edited and delivered on different CAA systems and
platforms. In this workshop you will learn about current CAA solutions from
commercial vendors and research projects. The workshop will also cover the IMS
Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) Specification, which is being
developed by an international consortium aiming to provide a consensus for
representing and implementing CAA.

Presenters
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Niall Sclater led the SHEFC-funded Scottish Computer Assisted Assessment
Network between 1999 and 2001 and is currently managing the CETIS (Centre
for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards) Assessment Special
Interest Group. He sits on the IMS QTI Working Group and is a member of the
panel drafting BS7988, "Using information technology in delivering assessment".

Boon Low is coordinating the CETIS Assessment SIG and is currently involved in
the research and development of IMS QTI Spec. at University of Strathclyde.

Both presenters are members of the CETIS Assessment Special Interest Group
(www.cetis.ac.uk/assessment ).

Programme
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10:30   Registration
11:00   Introduction
11:15   Existing CAA solutions: Commercial, and public project perspectives 1:00
   Lunch 2:00    The Developments and Use of IMS Question and Test
Interoperability (QTI) Specification 3:45    Discussion and Q&As

Who should attend
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*       Academic staff
*       Staff developers
*       E-learning managers
*       E-learning system developers
*       Anyone who has general interested in assessment technologies

Getting there
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Directions to the University of Hull, and a campus map, are on the University
website at http://www.hull.ac.uk/home/the_university/location_map.html. The
Brynmor Jones Library is building H on the campus map.

Organisers
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The workshop is being coordinated by the C&IT Centre
(http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/cit/), part of the Language Institute, and by
the LTSN Subject Centre for Physical Sciences
(http://dbweb.liv.ac.uk/ltsnpsc/), the lead site of which is hosted in the
Department of Chemistry at the University of Hull. The workshop is part of
the "CETIS Assessment Roadshow".

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Pam Bishop, Assistant Director
LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network
School of Mathematics and Statistics    [log in to unmask]
The University of Birmingham            tel 0121-414 4800
Birmingham  B15 2TT                     fax 0121-414 3389

The Maths, Stats & OR Network is part of the Learning and Teaching
Support Network, which provides discipline-based support for
learning and teaching in UK universities.

More information can be found at http://ltsn.mathstore.ac.uk
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